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THE BOOK OF<br/>
<span class=large>JOSHUA</span>
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CHAPTER 3
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Joshua leads Israel to Jordan—The Lord cuts off the water of Jordan; it stands up as a heap, and Israel passes over on dry ground.
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And</span> Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.
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And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the host;
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And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/3/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Ark of the Covenant.">ark</a> of the covenant of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it.
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Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/3/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 16: 10.">way</a> by which ye must go: for ye have not passed <i>this</i> way heretofore.
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And Joshua said unto the people, <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/3/5a" mark="a" type="E" title="IE Make yourselves clean, holy, by ritual washings and proper behavior; Ex. 19: 10; Josh. 7: 13; D&C 43: 16 (11-16).">Sanctify</a> yourselves: for to morrow the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> will do wonders among you.
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And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people.  And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
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&#182; And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/3/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 4: 14; 1 Chr. 29: 25.">magnify</a> thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, <i>so</i> I will be with thee.
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And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan.
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&#182; And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God.
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And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/3/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 42: 2; Hosea 1: 10; D&C 50: 1; D&C 76: 22.">living</a> God <i>is</i> among you, and <i>that</i> he will without fail drive out from before you the <sup>b</sup><a href="josh/3/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Ne. 17: 35 (32-38).">Canaanites</a>, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
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Behold, the ark of the covenant of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan.
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Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.
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And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, <i>that</i> the waters of Jordan shall be cut off <i>from</i> the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/3/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 15: 8.">heap</a>.
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&#182; And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;
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And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)
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That the <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/3/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 14: 21; 2 Kgs. 2: 8.">waters</a> which came down from <sup>b</sup><a href="josh/3/16b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE Up the river.">above</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="josh/3/16c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR stopped.">stood</a> <i>and</i> rose up upon an <sup>d</sup><a href="josh/3/16d" mark="d" type="A" title="Hab. 3: 15.">heap</a> very far from the city Adam, that <i>is</i> beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, <i>even</i> <sup>e</sup><a href="josh/3/16e" mark="e" type="E" title="IE the Dead Sea; Num. 34: 12 (3, 12); Josh. 15: 2.">the</a> salt sea, failed, <i>and</i> were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
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And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> stood firm on <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/3/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 66: 6; Ps. 74: 15; D&C 133: 68.">dry</a> ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.
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